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"Bellefonte, Pa., September 26, 1924.
Shakespeare House Is
Restored With Stucco
Restoration of a building at Strat-
ford-on-Avon, recently carried out by
the new owners, will preserve a struc-
ture closely identified with the life of
William Shakespeare, according te a
writer in Concrete. The author points
out that the enterprise answers in a
way a questign asked by Shakespeare
in one of his plays, when he inquires
a8 te what evil endure “against the
tooth of time and razure ef oblivion.”
“Judith Shakespeare, daughter of
William Shakespeare and Anne
Hathaway, after her marriage to
Thomas Quiney, vinter, lived for
thirty-six years in a house at 1 High
‘Street, Stratford-on-Avon,” says the
article in Concrete. “This house was
an Elizabethan dwelling, half-tim-
bered, with overhung eaves and gables
and the usual face of oak and plaster.
“Barly in the last century an at-
tempt was made to ‘restore’ it but
the result was very unsatisfactory. It
was recently rescued from its state
of conspicuous ugliness by W. H.
Smith & Son, book sellers, and the
present tenants of the premises. The
restoration was carried out with port-
land cement stucco, with remarkably
pleasing results.
“The house of Judith Shakespeare
is owned by the Stratford-on-Avon cor-
poration, and forms part of the Guild
estate. Half of the rent of the build-
ing goes to the King Edward school,
as it did in the days when Shake-
speare was a schoolboy there.”
German Tried Suicide
Vainly in Various Ways
A young man with the talent of a
«at for remaining alive was tried in
Hamburg, Germany, for attempted
murder and suicide. :
At twenty-one he had found his mar
rlage a failure and he determined to
end his life. Accordingly he threw
himself in front of an underground
train, which passed over him without
hurting even a hair of his head.
He then went home and shot his
wife. He saw the blood gush from
her head, pointed the revolver at his
own forehead and pulled the trigger.
The revolver did not go off, and he
therefore went out of the room, which
was on the fifth floor of a house, threw
himself over the balustrade, and land-
ed, safe and sound, if a little breath-
less, on the ground floor.
He was able to go on foot to the
police station with the policeman who
just at that moment had arrived to
arrest him.
His wife’s wound proved merely
skin deep, and the Hamburg court,
which was impressed by the story of
his vitality, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer, let him off with three months’
imprisonment for carrying firearms
without a license.
How Barrie “Began”
An English paper recently printed
the following story of how James M.
Barrie “began.”
A keen young editor eager to make
his magazine immortal and so contin-
ually on the lookout for new contribu-
tors, saw a series of anonymous let-
ters from a schoolboy in an evening
paper. They were racy to a degree, so
he unearthed the author and bade him
appear in the editorial sanctum.
Next morning 1 young Scot walked
in, fresh from a sojourn in Notting-
ham, where he had been “London cor-
respondent” of a local rag. He was
pale, reticent, nervous and shy, but
willingly agreed to try his hand at the
fresh series suggested to him by one
he regarded as at the top of the lad-
der.
This young author, “dewy from his
native heather,” was an obscure writer
of the name of Barrie.—San Francisco
Argonaut.
Offended Potentate
Lord Castletown, who has recently
published his reminiscences in “Ego,”
spent some time in Teheran, and he
tells how he was received in audience
by the shah of Persia, who said he
contemplated coming to England, and
inquired if there were any elephants
there, as he wanted to shoot one.
‘When eventually he did come to Eng-
land he was taken to the Tower of
London. He was greatly interested in
the old block and ax, and said he
wanted to see someone beheaded. On
being told there was nobody ready at
the moment, he promptly offered one
of his own retinue, and was very an-
noyed when the officials refused his
request.
Chief Canadian Wood
Yellow birch (Betula lutea) is the
most important hardwood of Canada.
It is found from the maritime prov-
inces to the east end of Lake Superior
and reappears along the international
boundary from the west end of Lake
Superior to the Lake of the Woods. It
is found on good sites throughout the
lower Laurentian type of forest. It is
used extensively for flooring and cabi-
net work.
Art in Shoe Shines
A Paris bootblack now uses a palette
when shining women’s shoes. The Pa-
risian woman's shoes vary go much in
color that he found it often difficult to
get the right hue of cream to match.
80 on his palette he puts a number
of different creams and combines them
in varying proportions according to
the tone of the shoes with which he
has to deal,
Major's Man Knew How
to Deal With Scorpion
The major acquired a body servant
named Garvino while we were soalk-
ing up malaria in the hills back of
Santiago. One day the major was
stung by a large scorpion—stung
through his leather legging at that.
Major Latimer was probably one of
the world’s greatest technicians in the
art of profanity. He tore loose with
his entire vocabulary when the virus
of the scorpion made itself felt. Then
he concluded he was going to die, as
wany other scorpion stingees had.
Garvino dug around till he found
another scorpion, He broke the crit-
ter in two, tore off the major's legging,
rolled up his pants and drawers and
applied the raw end of half the brok-
en scorpion to the spot on the ma-
Jor's leg where the sting had entered,
writes Leo P. Cook in Adventure Mag-
azine. The pain ceased Immediately
and the major felt no further discom-
fort. Thereafter we knew how to
treat a scorpion sting. This may be
old stuff,
Another little trick of Garvino was
to catch a scorpion, hold it by the
head from beneath with thumb and
finger, and with his other hand tear
out the muscle that actuated the scor-
pion’s sting. You know the scorpion
must flip his tail up over his head to
strike. After Garvino had performed
this operation the scorpion was help-
less to sting, though his locomotion
was not interfered with.
Writing on Pinhead
No Longer Novelty
Wandering about town one might
get the idea that America had de-
veloped a new industry—that of en-
graving the Lord's prayer on pinheads.
The impression is strengthened if one
takes to visiting the regions in which
sideshows flourish, near town or along
the rustic routes of the traveling
shows.
Considering that the man who en
graved the prayer on a pin a few
years ago was reported to have gone
blind and insane as a result of his
three years of application, one might
almost pause to ask if all this pin en-
graving were not dangerous. There
is no fear, however; the engraved pin
business has been placed on a safe
and sane basis, remarks the New York
Times.
The original pin was all that has
been said for it. On a disk forty-
seven one-thousandths of an inch in di-
ameter there were engraved 65 words
with 254 letters, and nearly 2,000 lines
had to be cut in doing it. The original
might conceivably have got lost in a day as I was going out I stopped and
sewing basket and gone the way of
all pins. But a die was made of it
—no inconsiderable job in itself—and
the market is now supplied from the
die.
Legend of Pontius Pilate
Among the Swiss Alps is a mountain
named after Pontius Pilate. Country
people say that it is haunted by Pi-
late’s ghost. According to legendary
lore it appears that after the Cruci-
fixion Pontius Pilate fell from imperial
favor and killed himself in prison,
whereupon his body was cast into the
Tiber, which immediately rose and
almost burst its banks. The body was
takeil to a lonely pool at the top of the
mountain which now bears its name
near Lucerne. According to another
version Pilate retired there during his
lifetime and was thrown into the pool
by the Wandering Jew. In any case
his presence caused terrible trouble,
avalanches and floods devastating the
district amid a thunderous noise in the
recesses of the moantains. In the Six-
teenth century the ghost was finally
laid, and a procession went up every
year, headed by the vicar of Lucerne,
to cast stones into the pool.
Gehenna Place of Horror
The word Gehenna is translated
“hell” in the Bible. Gehenna, strictly
speaking, was the valley of Hinnom,
@ deep narrow glen south of Jerusalem,
where, after Ahaz introduced the wor-
ship of fire gods, the Sun, Baal and
Moloch, the Jews, under Manasseh,
made their children pass through the
fire and offered them as burnt offer-
ings, “So Josiah defiled the valley
making it a receptable of carcasses and
criminals’ corpses, in which worms
were continually gendering.” A per-
petual fire was kept burning to con-
sume this putrefying matter; hence
it became the image of that awful
place where gll that are unfit for the
holy eity are supposed to be cast out.
Hidden Love Messages
There have always been parents
and guardians to hinder and thwart
the hapless lover, and many girls have
been obliged to resort to methods of
deception.
~ The simplest means ever employee
was to write the love messages with
fresh milk instead of ink. On the re-
ceipt of a blank sheet of paper, all
the recipient needed to do was to
sprinkle it with soot or charcoal, The
grit stuck to the lines traced by the
pen.—Exchange.
Study Woods Again
When iron ships came into use the
study of woods began to decline and
the decline was steady until recently
when the United States Department of
Agriculture placed wood upon a foot-
ing of a “principal product.” Galileo,
upon his visit to the arsenal in Venice,
which ‘visit had much to do with his
law upon the resistance of solid bodies,
was one of the first eminent students
of woods. Leonardo da Vinci was an
other
“Fairy Mus:c” May Not
Be Mere Imagination
Stories of fairy music in the forest,
of haunted waterfalls, and mermaids
singing near the seashore, long
thought mere figments of the imagi-
nation, may have a sound basis in
fact. In an issue of Science, Dr. Al-
exander Forbes of the Harvard medi-
cal school reports numerous cases in
which trees seem to have separated
discordant shouts and noises and giv-
*n back echoes in musical tones.
“In every case,” he says, “the source
of the sound—waves on a beach, roar
or a river, exhaust of motor boat or
discordant human voices—was one in
which many pitches were present.
Something in the surroundings, usual-
ly trees, must have separated the
sounds according to pitch, placing
those of one pitch in one place and
those of another pitch elsewhere. In
this respect the phenomenon appears
analogous to that of white light being
broken up into pure spectral colors by
a prism.”
This reflection of absorption of
sound waves of different pitches, Doc-
tor Forbes explains, is only rarely ob-
served. Sometimes the phenomenon
is distinct and clear in.one spot, yet
a few paces backward or forward onls
the ordinary noises are heard.
The frequent association of trees
with these musical echoes is thought
to be due to the lack of uniformity
they present as a reflecting surface
for the sounds. Each tree apparently
sends back part of the sound, and this
i reflection is boken up into innumer-
able parts on account of the varying
element of distance.
Boy Was Right There
After Job He Wanted
He was a clean-cut, wide-awake
young chap and he wanted a job.
“I have nothing at present,” said the
corporation manager, “but leave your
name and if anything turns up you
will be notified.”
“May I ask if you have made the
same promise to many others,” said
the applicant.
“Yes, quite a few,” was the repiy.
The boy grinned and remarking that
it was no monopoly he went out.
A few days later a young man was
needed in a hurry and seven tele-
grams were dispatched to seven wait-
ing applicants. Hardly had these left
the secretary’s office when in walked
Johnny on the Spot, holding his tele-
gram.
“How in the world did you get it?
gasped the executive.
“Well, sir,” he answered, “the othe:
got a job as errand boy. I thought it
would be a good plan to be where I
could get the news quicker than the
others.”
“You'll do!” said the manager.—
Boston Transcript. k
Observant Japanese Lady
A Japanese woman has given to a
newspaper her reasons for always ap-
plying the feminine gender to ships,
motors, trains, etc.:. “Yes, they call
‘she’ for many becauses: They wear
jackets’ with yokes, pins, hangers,
straps, shields, stays. They have
apron, also cap. They have not only
shoes but have pumps. Also hose and
drag train behind; behind time all
time. They attract men with puffs
and mufflers. Some time they foam—
refuse to work when at such time they
should be switched. They need guid-
ing—it always require man manager.
They require man to feed them. When
abuse are given they quickly make
scrap. They are steadier when coupled
up, but my cousin say they h—Il of ex-
pense.”
Franklin Set Style
When Eighteenth-century Paris was
still wearing the picturesque three-
cornered hat Benjamin Franklin came
to represent the new republic of the
United States, wearing on his head a
queer thing derived from the steeple
crowns of the Puritan Pilgrim fathers.
Paris copied it and turned it into the
cylinder which Christendom has worn
ever since, says the Detroit News.
in the Eighteenth century when par
tisans of France and of Russia were
fighting it out in Sweden the French
faction wore hats, the Russians caps.
The Middle ages, as a familiar ballad
reminds us, knew a Pilgrim by his
“cockle hat.”
Lamb’s Merry Jest
One of Lamb's jobs on the Morniny
Post was to supply half a dozen jokes
a day, for which Dan Stuart paid him
6 pence each, and held him well paid.
8ix fresh-baked jests a day is a tall
order. The fashion of flesh-colored
stockings for the women proved a tol-
erable help in time of trouble, and
Lamb boasts justifiably of his master-
piece, inspired by pink stockings. He
wrote that “Modesty, taking her final
leave of mortals, her last blush was
visible in her ascent to the heavens by
the tract of the glowing instep.”—
Manchester Guardian.
“Little Rock”
The principal ®eity of Arkansas de
rived its name (originally “Le Petit
Roche” and “The Little Rock”) from
the rocky peninsula in the Arkansas,
distinguished from the “Big Rock,"
the site of the army post, Fort Logan
H. Roots, one mile west of the eity,
The hig rock is said to have been first
discovered and named “Le Rocher
Francais” in 1822 by Sieur Bernard de
la Harpe, who was In search of ap
emerald mountain; the little rock fsx
now used as an abutment for = all
way bridge.
How Sturgeon Invented
- the Electro-Magnet
A hundred years ago the electro
magnet was born. Its inventor was
William Sturgeon, a soldier at Wool-
wich, near London. As a lad he fol-
lowed his father's trade as a shoe-
maker, and he never regretted it, for
shoemaking taught him to use his
eyes and fingers with uncommon
power. In hours of leisure he was
fond of experiment. He noticed that
soft iron was magnetic only while
in contact with a steel magnet. When
he severed them the soft iron in-
stantly lost its attraction. It occurred
to him to place a core of soft iron
within an electric coil. At once that
core became a magnet of uncommon
strength. When he broke the current
the magnetism of the soft iron van-
ished. He created the electro-mag
net.
The American physicist, Joseph
Henry, greatly improved the device
of Sturgeon. That inventor had wound
only one coil of copper wire around
his iron core, using varnish on the
iron as a means of insulation. Henry
surrounded the coil core with several
close coils covered with silk thread,
obtaining a much more powerful
magnet than that of Sturgeon. From
the very beginning of telegraphy the
electro-magnet has been the very
heart of the apparatus. A momen-
tary current is received from a dis-
tant station in a coil of copper wire;
that instant its soft iron core becomes
a magnet, and in attracting its arma-
ture gives a signal.
In telephones as well as in tele
graphs, in dynamos and motors, in
automatic printers and a host of other
inventions, electro-magnets command
motion and rest instantly, strongly and
dependably.
Seeing by Wireless Is
Near, Says a Scientist
Edmund Edward Fournier-d’Albe, in-
ventor of the eoptophone, which en-
ables the blind to read through their
ears, and the tonosccpe, which makes
speech intelligible to the deaf, has
added his prophecy to those of other
scientists who recently have forecast
the early achievement of television—
seeing by wireless. Dr. Fournier-d’Albe
consented to be quoted as saying:
“I believe television will be accom
plished this year. I'll stake my whole
scientific reputation on it—I’m certain
of it.”
He envisages a time a few years
hence, says the New York World,
when explorers equipped with tele-
vision cameras will make possible the
projection on moving-picture screens
in European and American cities the
scenes attending their climbs, say of
Mount Everest, or their polar explor-
ations, or even the examination of the
ocean’s floor by means of submarines.
Doctor Fournier-d’Albe is credited with
sending the first photograph by radio.
Got His Advance Tip
A man who was in the habit of din
Ing regularly at a certain restaurant
said to the waiter, “John, instead of
tipping you every day, I'm going to
give it to you in a lump sum at the
end of every month.”
“Thank you, sir,” replied the
waiter, “but I wonder if you'd mind
paying me in advance?”
“Well, it’s rather strange,” re
marked the patron. ‘However, here's
five shillings. I suppose you are in
want of money, or is it that you dis-
trust me?”
“Oh, no, sir,” smiled
ping the money in his pocket.
I'm leaving here today.”
One of Many
Probably there isn’t a physician whe
doesn’t have a few charity patients as
well as those who can, and do, pay
their bills, and one of these gave a
good laugh to the attending nurses at
the hospital.
“I’m very grateful for what you have
done for me, doctor,” said the woman,
adding, “I pray for you every night!”
“Why, that’s very: nice of you to
think of me like that, Mrs. Blank,”
said the doctor, highly gratified.
“Lord, sir, it ain’t a bit of trouble,”
replied the woman affably. “It ain't
a bit of trouble to put your name in
along with the others.”
John, slip
“Only
Wanted to Know
The wife of a certain bishop had
given a long and sympathetic ad-
dress to a number of women from
the east end of London on the ques-
tion of making the life of the home
happy and peaceful—especially peace-
ful.
After the address one of the wom
én was overheard while making this
remark:
“All very well, but why didn’t she
go Into detail? For Instance, I
should like to know what she dces
when her old man comes home
drunk.”
Test for Eggs
Mrs. Newbride (telephoning): “I'm
-afrald you sent me ducks’ eggs this
mormng ir-tead of hens’ eggs.
Grocer— i jucks’ eggs, ma'am! I don"
keep ducks’ eggs.
Mrs, Newybride—But I tested them.
I dropped them in water and they
floated.
Correct
Teacher—Give fo one year the
number of tons of coal shipped out
of the United States?
Smarty—1492, none.
Like Toast
“Mamma,” sald the little boy whe
hnd been sent to dry a towel before
the fre, “is it done when it is brown?"
Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Special Prices
on early buying of the New Winter
Coats for Ladies, Misses and Children.
SEE OUR
Fur Trimmed Coats siws $20
Childrens Coats from $4.25 up
Bobbed Hair Sweaters
The newest style in Sweaters. We
are showing Powder Blue, Silver, Rust
and other new colors, from $5.00 up.
New Dress Goods
in all novel Checks and Plaids; Flan-
nels and Broadcloths in new shades—
Burgundy, Russian Red, Shutter-Green,
Navy and Brown.
Also the new Ottoman Weaves.
See the New Styles—and the
Prices will be Temptingly Low
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Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Prices Reduced
at Yeagers
We have made a Very Liberal Reduc-
tion on the price of Ladies Pumps and
Sandals.
This season’s goods—not old styles.
$8
—
F* i
now $4.85
Pumps
and Sandals
Yeager's Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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